THE REVIVAL OF ALCHEMY

The alchemy of ideas.

This article presents an assessment of the power of ideas and their role in initiating change and progress. The enormous potential cascade effect is illustrated by examining the movement of Modernism in the arts. Next, the immense scope and capabilities of the modern scientific endeavor-with robotic space exploration at the scale of 10 meters at one extreme and the wonders of nanoscience at the...

The alchemy of informed consent.

The Alchemy Tutorial

Alchemy is a software tool designed for a wide range of users. Anyone with a need for a knowledge base with uncertainty will find Alchemy useful and this is the target audience of this tutorial. It assumes the reader has general knowledge of classical machine learning algorithms and tasks and is familiar with first-order and Markov logic and some probability theory. Markov logic serves as a gen...

Aquatic Alchemy

Background: Current statistical methods for sib-pair linkage analysis of complex diseases include linear models, generalized linear models, and novel data mining techniques. The purpose of this study was to further investigate the utility and properties of a novel pattern recognition technique (step-wise discriminant analysis) using the chromosome 10 linkage data from the Framingham Heart Study...

Modern Alchemy

developmental process. Surveying the mathematical analysis of Woodger and the contribution of experimental embryology to formation (Gestaltung), to segregation, to differentiation, to growth, to polarity and symmetry, and finally to regeneration, we are led through a consideration of the historical character of the organism to the system theory. We read, "We must view the germ as a whole, as a ...